Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Defence and Security Export Statistics for 2016, how much of the £5.9 billion that the UK exported, based on orders, was paid for by the Government of Iran.

The DIT Defence and Security Organisation recorded no new orders of defence exports to Iran in 2016 as the sale, supply, transfer or export to Iran, of all military goods and technology as listed in the UK Military List remain banned under the proliferation-related sanctions.